Nonlinearities in cross-country growth regressions: A Bayesian Averaging of Thresholds (BAT) approach

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 541-554

  Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus ^a   Doppelhofer, Gernot ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Determinants of economic growth; Model averaging; Model uncertainty; Nonlinearities; Threshold estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548288056     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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